The Apple Beat: Happy Birthday OS X!

Apple faithful and crafty prospectors line up for iPad 2 in Buffalo :Photo by Sixian ZhengBy Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The iPad 2 is finally coming to Canada tomorrow afternoon and Apple Retail Stores will once more see long lines of excited customers. Many will be first-time buyers who waited patiently for the iPad to go version 2.0 before plunging into the tablet space. Others are upgraders hungry for the latest and greatest and as always, there will be shrewd prospectors out to make a few hundred bucks.

Click to read more ...

Review: Apple iPad 2 (32GB Wi-Fi)

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The iPad 2 is definitely thinner, undeniably lighter and palpably faster than it's predecessor. With new dual-cameras, a faster dual-core Apple A5 processor, double the RAM at 512MB and a vastly improved graphics chipset the iPad 2 is impressive and certainly the most compelling tablet soon to be available.

Click to read more ...

iPad 2 ships today in the US

The iPad 2 line at the Walden Galleria Apple Store in BuffaloApple's iPad 2 begins shipping at 5PM Eastern time today in US retail stores as well as Best Buy, AT&T and Verizon stores. The updated tablet, which features  dual-cameras, an updated 1GHz A5 dual-core processor, improved graphics performance,a gyroscope and a 33 per cent thinner design than the previous model while maintaining the same price point is expected to be a popular device.  Apple has also started accepting online orders to US buyers. The iPad 2 is expected to come to Canada on March 25.

10-inch tablet shootout: iPad 2 vs. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 vs. HP TouchPad vs. Motorola Xoom vs. LG G-Slate and Toshiba Tablet

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The 10-inch tablet space is the new battlefield in consumer electronics and the lines have been clearly drawn. On one hand we have the new and improved iPad 2, the thinnest and lightest of the bunch. The Honeycomb clique is composed of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, the Motorola Xoom, the LG G-Slate and the Toshiba Tablet which are all powerful next-generation10-inch  tablets aiming for the iPad's market share. We also have HP's webOS powered TouchPad which is a dark horse but is the most similar to the iPad 2 since HP makes the hardware and the software for this tablet.

Click to read more ...